I’m guessing most small churches aren’t very high tech. My church is in the heart of Silicon Valley and it could be in the tundra of Alaska for all its tech savvy. But, like most churches, it did jump on the WWW bandwagon a number of years back and has a web site, email, etc. The problem is that the hosting company we use is a rip-off. It’s so bad, I would consider it a stewardship issue to continue to use them.
I use DreamHost to host this and a couple of other sites and for $10 a month for unlimited bandwidth and storage, it’s great. I’ve had some outages and problems, but I don’t run a business on this plan so I don’t have any complaints. I’m now in the process of moving all the churches stuff over. What I just discovered is that DreamHost provides FREE HOSTING to any organization that can present a letter from the IRS showing that it is a 501(c)(3). I’m just about to send off the letter I got from the church office.
So, if your church is paying for hosting, go checkout http://dreamhost.com/hosting-nonprofit.html.
Update: The approval came through in less than an hour. Free hosting for Shepherd of the Valley Lutheran Church, hurray!
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